Samoa’s new digital payment system to boost financial inclusion and support eEconomic activity
Samoans are set to benefit from their new national digital payment platform, which will make it easier and quicker to transfer funds, including large...
Green shipping corridors must not strand island states
By Asela Peneueta, , Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Communications & Transport, Government of Tuvalu
Tuvalu, along with other atoll nations, is amongst those most...
Uluinasau bolsters Fijiana 15s campaign
2023 World Rugby Sevens Series DHL Impact Player of the Series, Reapi Uluinasau has been roped into the Vodafone Fijiana 15s squad for their...
OFC U-19 Women’s Championship in Fiji
The draw for the OFC U-19 Women’s Championship, to be held in Fiji from June 21 – July 8 this year, has been finalised...
Flying Fijians get green-light for French warmup
The Fiji Water Flying Fijians will play France in a warm-up match ahead of the 2023 Rugby World Cup.
Fiji Rugby Union Administrator Simione Valenitabua...
PNG beefs up security for visit of world leaders
In the coming days, two American C-17 Globemaster transport planes will bring in 20 vehicles as part of Papua New Guinea preparations for the...
U.S territories awarded $12 million in federal funds to combat climate
The U.S Department of the Interior has announced US$12 million in key investments for Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.....
Fiji calls on EU to revise blacklisting approach: Deputy PM Kamikamica
Fiji's deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade, Manoa Kamikamica has told the European Union (EU) that it needs to revise its tax blacklisting...
Pacific media needs more support to protect the truth
By Blake Johnson and Lucy Albiston
Media freedom is an essential pillar of democracy. In Pacific island countries, this pillar is under threat from financial...
No rush in French Polynesia for independence referendum
For French Polynesia's newly elected president Moetai Brotherson not independence from France but continued assistance to the victims of the flooding two weeks ago...
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MCC touts Pacific, Fiji partnerships as strategic alternative to China’s Belt and Road
The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has highlighted its work in Fiji and the wider Pacific as part of a broader U.S strategy to strengthen...
Vanuatu Opposition demands Gov’t apology over failed Matthew and Hunter negotiations
Vanuatu Opposition Leader Alatoi Ishmael Kalsakau has called on Prime Minister Jotham Napat and Deputy Prime Minister Johnny Koanapo to apologise to the people...
Indigenous leaders tell governments ‘no more tokenism’ before COP31
As Pacific communities lose homes, coastlines and even the resting places of their ancestors to rising seas, Indigenous have delivered a blunt message to...